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Lead Software Systems Engineer - GPU Performance

United States💼 Full-time💰 $170,000–$170,000🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-07-31

Core

Optimizing performance of large-scale GPU clusters at the intersection of hardware and software for a full-stack AI cloud platform.

Role type

Lead Software Systems Engineer (GPU Performance)

Builds

Hyperscaler platform components including GPU orchestration, inference optimization, and distributed communication layers.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / High-Performance Computing (HPC) / AI Hardware

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

System-level software development, Linux systems administration and tuning, Server architecture (PCIe, NICs, Kernel), Performance-oriented programming (C/C++, Go, Python)

Preferred skills

Hardware vendor collaboration, Cluster qualification, Troubleshooting real workloads

Technologies

InfiniBand, RoCE, KVM, QEMU, MPI, NCCL, NVIDIA, Mellanox, Intel

Responsibilities

Identify performance bottlenecks and drive improvements for cluster operation and tuning; Investigate and troubleshoot GPU cluster performance under training and inference workloads; Evaluate and integrate new hardware, configurations, and tuning approaches; Support complex performance-related escalations; Contribute to hardware and cluster qualification to ensure performance expectations are met

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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